# Nautilus (TV series)

Nautilus is a British ten-part television adventure drama created by James Dormer. It is a reimagining of Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, presenting an origin story for Captain Nemo, an Indian prince-turned-crusading scientist.
In August 2023, after filming was complete, it was announced Disney+, the original distributor, would not release the series. In August 2024, Amazon Prime Video acquired the series for distribution in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where the series was released on 25 October 2024.

## Premise

The year is 1857, and the British East India Mercantile Company currently wields more power than any nation on Earth, thanks to its private armies and navy, while stealing the riches of the nations they've subdued. In Kalpani, India, a massive submersible ship, the Nautilus, is being secretly built by the Company using slave labor from the Colonial prison. Although originally designed as a vessel of undersea exploration, the Company intends to arm the Nautilus and use it as a new type of warship. One of the prisoners forced to build the Nautilus is Nemo, who also designed the Nautilus 's engines, but who has also been planning a prisoner uprising in order to seize the Nautilus and use it to escape. However, when plans are announced to have the Nautilus depart for Bombay days earlier than expected, Nemo and his followers still manage to successfully take over the Nautilus and escape out to sea. Now hunted by the East India Mercantile Company and its vengeful Director Crawley, both of whom want the Nautilus back and Nemo dead, Nemo and his motley crew sail beneath the seas on a mission of retribution and vengeance to utterly destroy the power of the Company...and the Company itself.

## Cast
### Main / regular

* Shazad Latif as Captain Nemo
* Georgia Flood as Humility Lucas
* Thierry Frémont as Gustave Benoit
* Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface
* Arlo Green as Turan
* Tyrone Ngatai as Kai
* Ling Cooper Tang as Suyin
* Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo
* Ashan Kumar as Ranbir
* Chum Ehelepola as Jagadish
* Céline Menville as Loti
* Cameron Cuffe as Lord Pitt
* Kayden Price as Blaster
* Damien Garvey as Director Crawley
* Benedict Hardie as Cuff
* Jacob Collins-Levy as Captain Youngblood
* Luke Arnold as Captain Billy Millais
* Darren Gilshenan as Punch

### Guests

* Richard E. Grant as the leader of Karajaan
* Anna Torv as Revna
* Leeanna Walsman as Hilda
* Noah Taylor as Captain Mogg
* Muki Zubis as Casamir
* Adolphus Waylee as Absalom Boston

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | "Évasion" | Michael Matthews | James Dormer | June 12, 2024 (2024-06-12) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 2 | "Tic, Tac, Boum" | Michael Matthews | James Dormer | June 12, 2024 (2024-06-12) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 3 | "Le Force Du Peuple" | Michael Matthews | Matthew Parkhill | June 19, 2024 (2024-06-19) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 4 | "Sur Une Pente Glissante" | Michael Matthews | Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre | June 19, 2024 (2024-06-19) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 5 | "Hallucinations" | Ben C. Lucas | Sonya Desai | June 26, 2024 (2024-06-26) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 6 | "L`Atlantide" | Ben C. Lucas | Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre | June 26, 2024 (2024-06-26) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 7 | "Guerre Froide" | Ben C. Lucas | Matthew Parkhill | July 3, 2024 (2024-07-03) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 8 | "Le Point De Bascule" | Isabelle Sieb | James Dormer | July 3, 2024 (2024-07-03) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 9 | "La Chevauchée" | Isabelle Sieb | Matthew Parkhill | July 10, 2024 (2024-07-10) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |
| 10 | "Bouquet Final" | Isabelle Sieb | James Dormer | July 10, 2024 (2024-07-10) (Sweden) October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (United Kingdom) |

## Production
### Development

In August 2021, it was announced that Disney+ had ordered Nautilus, a ten-part television series about the origin of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. James Dormer writes the series, and also serves as executive producer with Xavier Marchand, Anand Tucker and Johanna Devereaux. Moonriver TV and Seven Stories produce the series. Michael Matthews joined as director in November 2021. Cameron Welsh joined as series producer and Chris Loveall joined as executive producer in February 2022; Colleen Woodcock and Daisy Gilbert were added as executive producers one year later.

### Casting

Shazad Latif was cast as Captain Nemo in November 2021. In February 2022, Georgia Flood, Thierry Frémont, Pacharo Mzembe, Arlo Green, Tyrone Ngatai, Ling Cooper Tang, Andrew Shaw, Ashan Kumar, Chum Ehelepola, Céline Menville, Kayden Price, and Damien Garvey were cast. In May 2022, Richard E. Grant joined the cast as a guest star. Muki Zubis, Benedict Hardie, Jacob Collins-Levy, Adolphus Waylee, Cameron Cuffe and Luke Arnold also joined the cast.

### Filming

Filming began in mid-February 2022 at Village Roadshow Studios in Gold Coast, Queensland. The series was expected to wrap in January 2023. The series filmed at The Old Museum in Brisbane in May 2022, and at the Queensland Parliament House in September. Filming was previously set to begin in December 2021. Ben C. Lucas directed episodes 5, 6, and 7, while Isabelle Sieb directed 3 episodes of the series.

## Release

Nautilus is distributed worldwide by Disney Entertainment. It was originally slated to stream on Disney+ in the United Kingdom before it was announced it would not be moving forward with the series. It first aired on SVT Play in Sweden on 12 June 2024.
In October 2023, AMC announced it had acquired the series for broadcast in the United States and Canada.
In August 2024, Amazon Prime Video acquired the series for release in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it premiered on 25 October 2024. All episodes were released simultaneously and the director of the last three episodes posted that it had topped Amazon Prime's chart in that region. In other European countries, the full series was released on 18 October 2024. (Except in France, where it was released on 12 August 2024, on France 2 channel)
On 26 September 2024, Stan announced that it acquired the series. On 1 October, Stan announced the show would release on 25 October, simultaneously with Prime Video.